Best movie of this year hands down!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Jack Black has always had an appealing personality which always lightens up the screen, especially with movies such as High Fidelity (2000), Shallow Hal (2001), The School of Rock (2003) and Tropic Thunder (2008). Not even his presence in Year One could even save this movie from being banished back to the stone age. Humour was non-existent from start to finish and anything that was meant to be funny just wasn't working. Overall, this was a movie to forget.Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) are banished from their village after eating from the forbidden tree. As they make their way to Sodom, they encounter a variety of biblical characters and somehow change the course of history.The late Harold Ramis who always struck box office gold as an actor with Stripes (1981) and Ghostbusters (1984) and in the director's chair with Groundhog Day (1993) and Analyse This (1999) struck out with this forgettable comedy.The only redeemable thing about Year One was when the movie ended. Such a shame that this could have been light hearted entertainment but in the end, the movie just did not work. Give this a miss.2/10.

After the success of school of rock I decided to give Jack Black a break in the acting and directing department until This came along. Its not funny or entertaining in the least and only composes random events together as if an attempt to make it so. The caste was worst I've ever seen and try to play it too straight losing any dignity it had. The sets look terrible as if a kindergarten class was putting together a group project.None of the characters are likable and try to be offensive just to be. I really don't see who they were catering to as even the low brow will caste it aside as deserving of a razzie award. Maybe its not my type of film, but after seeing this atrocity I felt it was my duty to steer clear anyone consider renting of buying the DVD. I usually don't trash films or at least cut them a break if any artistic merit was attempted. Here I just don't see it. All I can say is choose better projects in the future Jack Black and Michael Vera or your careers will stall. I'd give it a zero if possible.

This movie is smart stupid, everyone is so clumsy and clueless, no mater what they do in ends wrong but there is just one optimistic person... and is the main character.I have watched this movie probably 10 times at least, it is so random, anything can happen and it will. But you have to like that sort of humor, if you like Napoleon Dynamite this one is 1000 better, probably in the line of Ferrys Buellers Day off, not as classic but in the same package. It is good to watch it with your girlfriend with some pizza in a silly night, not for a first date... later on because the movie may be a risk. But totally recommended.

This is a silly concept film starring Jack Black and Michael Cera as two cavemen in supposedly pre historic times who wander off and then end up in biblical times first encountering Cain and Abel and ending up in the town of Sodom where they try to free people from their own tribe from slavery.So Year One is a romp that goes from the stone age with hunter & gatherers to farmer & herders to wheeled ox pulled wagons to the time of Abraham and its also a comedy with Jack Black doing his usual stretched out shtick.The film is directed by Harold Ramis who is also a credited co-writer but its been a come down from the heady days of Ghostbusters. Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria and Xander Berkeley are the wasted actors in this lame film that provides few laughs and will leave you open mouthed as to how poor it is.